Design is about communication. As a designer, you’ve achieved what you set out for if your visitor finds what he’s looking for on your website with ease. In a couple of my earlier blog posts, I’ve covered how to use calls-to-action in your web design but icons? Icons can also be calls-to-action but can be effective visual replacements for text. Icons are usually instantly recognizable and already have strong, defined concepts and although they may only be…
The objective of designing is not just to make the website or the paper look good but to successfully portray what the brand is to the target audience, visually. This also includes minimum amount of effort on part of the designer and maximum amount of result, which gets us to today’s topic, “Minimalism”. Minimalism is a concept which helps you to successfully draft a message for your audience by using minimum elements and efforts and…
Scrolls… you probably don’t even think about them too much. For a long time, scrolls have been dismissed as just a basic functionality to move up and down on a webpage that is more than your screen size. Today, web designers are exploring all that can be done with scrolls. And there’s one definite conclusion – there’s more. Clever coding with the scroll can enable you to create amazing animations and therefore, amazing web designs…
In my previous post, we covered the social platforms that will help web developers collaborate better and enhance and develop their skills over the internet. So, we thought, why not help web designers collaborate better as well and list down certain platforms that you, as a web designer can try out. With the rise of the online era, social networks are coming up to help people connect with different people with common interests and profession.…
If you’ve been designing websites for a while, it’s quite likely you know what a website card is and what it can do for your website design. For those of us not so sure what a website card is, it’s the rectangular boxes you see on websites that either have images or texts that serve as entry points to more information. I believe website cards are critical because: It grabs the attention of your visitors within…
You’ve just had a fantastic meeting with a client. The requirement is exciting and the pay will be too. You are ready to start work as soon as possible. To your shock, things start to unravel right from the very first change request to the invoice date. What could have been done to prevent this? Most web professionals, unfortunately, do not sign written agreements with clients before starting work. This mistake could not only cost…
Attention, Web Designers! Once you have launched your web design career, most of your decisions are driven by your right-brain thinking because you are obviously a very creative person and your expression manifests itself in artistic and aesthetic beauty. You have become a web designer to create great sites and give form to great ideas but for your business to continue to grow, you have to ensure that certain left-brain centered activities such as paying…
If you’ve been a freelance web designer / developer for a while or have been working for a company and think it’s time you moved out and started your own full-fledged business, we back your decision. You know how best you can use your skills, which projects you want to work on and how you can maximize your income. Assuming you’ve taken into consideration risks like unsteady income and difficult clients, here are 9 additional things…
Designers are very interesting professionals! You do what you love and love what you do. The projects that you take up and complete are top notch, but then when it comes down to the invoicing process, you might flip out. Anytime a money matter comes into the picture, it does make you go a little crazy inside. The competency of the invoicing process is integral in order to maintain a healthy and balanced cash flow and…
SiteWars the Web Design Contest powered by Donuts concluded this week as we rolled out the results. In case you’ve missed our first article about SiteWars, get the full lowdown here. For those of you who aren’t familiar with initiatives we’ve undertaken with the Web Design & Development community, here it is in a nutshell. Shridhar Luthria, General Manager & Business Head of ResellerClub said, “In my webinar at the start of the year, I…